Tim Davies reviews a spirited defence of public libraries, which tries to define their core purpose and which argues for a re-positioning of their place in society. <a href="/issue68">issue68</a> March 2012 <a href="/category/article-type/review">review</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/15038/author-info">tim davies</a> Sophia Ananiadou and colleagues describe an ambitious new initiative to accelerate Europe-wide language technology research, helped by their work on promoting interoperability of language resources. <a href="/issue67">issue67</a> July 2011 <a href="/category/article-type/feature-article">feature article</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/14470/author-info">dean andrew jackson</a>, <a href="/taxonomy/term/806/author-info">john keane</a>, <a href="/taxonomy/term/807/author-info">john mcnaught</a>, <a href="/taxonomy/term/14466/author-info">paul thompson</a>, <a href="/taxonomy/term/14469/author-info">philip j r day</a>, <a href="/taxonomy/term/805/author-info">sophia ananiadou</a>, <a href="/taxonomy/term/14471/author-info">steve pettifer</a>, <a href="/taxonomy/term/14468/author-info">teresa k attwood</a>, <a href="/taxonomy/term/14467/author-info">yoshinobu kano</a> Steve Hitchcock and David Tarrant show how file format profiles, the starting point for preservation plans and actions, can also be used to reveal the fingerprints of emerging types of institutional repositories. <a href="/issue66">issue66</a> January 2011 <a href="/category/article-type/feature-article">feature article</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/1145/author-info">david tarrant</a>, <a href="/taxonomy/term/281/author-info">steve hitchcock</a> Emma Tonkin investigates ebooks and takes a look at recent technological and business developments in this area. <a href="/issue62">issue62</a> January 2010 <a href="/category/article-type/feature-article">feature article</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/809/author-info">emma tonkin</a> Angela Joyce, Jackie Wickham, Phil Cross and Chris Stephens describe Intute's ongoing Integration Project, which is promoting and developing integration of Intute content in the UK academic library community. <a href="/issue55">issue55</a> April 2008 <a href="/category/article-type/feature-article">feature article</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/629/author-info">angela joyce</a>, <a href="/taxonomy/term/981/author-info">chris stephens</a>, <a href="/taxonomy/term/980/author-info">jackie wickham</a>, <a href="/taxonomy/term/500/author-info">phil cross</a> Julie Allinson, Rachel Heery, Pete Johnston and Rosemary Russell report on DC 2006, the sixth international conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, held 3 - 6 October 2006. <a href="/issue49">issue49</a> October 2006 <a href="/category/article-type/event-report">event report</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/876/author-info">julie allinson</a>, <a href="/taxonomy/term/621/author-info">pete johnston</a>, <a href="/taxonomy/term/232/author-info">rachel heery</a>, <a href="/taxonomy/term/371/author-info">rosemary russell</a> Dan Chudnov and a team of colleagues describe unAPI, a tiny HTTP API for serving information objects in next-generation Web applications. <a href="/issue48">issue48</a> July 2006 <a href="/category/article-type/feature-article">feature article</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/877/author-info">dan chudnov</a>, <a href="/taxonomy/term/746/author-info">ed summers</a>, <a href="/taxonomy/term/770/author-info">jeremy frumkin</a>, <a href="/category/authors/michael-j-giarlo">michael j. giarlo</a>, <a href="/category/authors/mike-rylander">mike rylander</a>, <a href="/category/authors/peter-binkley">peter binkley</a>, <a href="/taxonomy/term/823/author-info">ross singer</a> Maureen Pennock reports on a two-day workshop on Future-Proofing Web Sites, organised by the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) and the Wellcome Library at the Wellcome Library, London, over 19-20 January 2006. <a href="/issue46">issue46</a> February 2006 <a href="/category/article-type/event-report">event report</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/865/author-info">maureen pennock</a> Marcus Weisen, Helen Petrie, Neil King and Fraser Hamilton describe a comprehensive Web accessibility audit involving extensive user testing as well as automatic testing of Web sites. <a href="/issue44">issue44</a> July 2005 <a href="/category/article-type/feature-article">feature article</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/838/author-info">fraser hamilton</a>, <a href="/taxonomy/term/836/author-info">helen petrie</a>, <a href="/taxonomy/term/835/author-info">marcus weisen</a>, <a href="/taxonomy/term/837/author-info">neil king</a> Eric Lease Morgan describes sibling Web Service protocols designed to define a standard form for Internet search queries as well as the structure of the responses. <a href="/issue40">issue40</a> July 2004 <a href="/category/article-type/feature-article">feature article</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/775/author-info">eric lease morgan</a> Jessie Hey describes how user needs have influenced the evolutionary development of 'e-Prints Soton' as the University of Southampton Research Repository. <a href="/issue40">issue40</a> July 2004 <a href="/category/article-type/feature-article">feature article</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/729/author-info">jessie hey</a> Paul Browning offers a technical review of new approaches to Web publishing. <a href="/issue39">issue39</a> April 2004 <a href="/category/article-type/tooled">tooled up</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/603/author-info">paul browning</a> Dey Alexander reports on a recent study of the accessibility of Australian university Web sites. <a href="/issue38">issue38</a> January 2004 <a href="/category/article-type/regular-column">regular column</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/741/author-info">dey alexander</a> Deborah Anderson provides us an overview of the progress made in bringing historic scripts to the Unicode Standard. <a href="/issue37">issue37</a> October 2003 <a href="/category/article-type/feature-article">feature article</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/734/author-info">deborah anderson</a> William J. Nixon and Jessie Hey co-report on the JISC IPR workshop held in London, May 2003. <a href="/issue36">issue36</a> July 2003 <a href="/category/article-type/event-report">event report</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/729/author-info">jessie hey</a>, <a href="/taxonomy/term/703/author-info">william j. nixon</a> Brett Burridge describes the Index Server Companion, an application he has created that allows Microsoft Index Server to index content from remote websites and ODBC databases. <a href="/issue33">issue33</a> October 2002 <a href="/category/article-type/tooled">tooled up</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/539/author-info">brett burridge</a> Paul Browning and Mike Lowndes explore the CMS concept and look at the available tools. <a href="/issue30">issue30</a> January 2002 <a href="/category/article-type/feature-article">feature article</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/661/author-info">mike lowndes</a>, <a href="/taxonomy/term/603/author-info">paul browning</a> Sarah Ormes explores the e-book from a Public Libraries perspective. <a href="/issue26">issue26</a> January 2001 <a href="/category/article-type/feature-article">feature article</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/245/author-info">sarah ormes</a> Charles E. Jones and David Schloen report on a Chicago conference which explored XML tagging for Ancient Near Eastern Texts on the Web. <a href="/issue22">issue22</a> December 1999 <a href="/category/article-type/feature-article">feature article</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/565/author-info">charles e. jones</a>, <a href="/taxonomy/term/566/author-info">david schloen</a> Mary Rowlatt describes SEAMLESS, the Essex-based project. <a href="/issue19">issue19</a> March 1999 <a href="/category/article-type/feature-article">feature article</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/528/author-info">mary rowlatt</a> Michael Day, Rachel Heery and Andy Powell report on work in progress on enhancements to the ROADS software. <a href="/issue14">issue14</a> March 1998 <a href="/category/article-type/regular-column">regular column</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/354/author-info">andy powell</a>, <a href="/taxonomy/term/407/author-info">michael day</a>, <a href="/taxonomy/term/232/author-info">rachel heery</a> Roy Tennant describes a resource used to create digital libraries and services, and to help others do the same. <a href="/issue10">issue10</a> July 1997 <a href="/category/article-type/review">review</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/273/author-info">roy tennant</a> Tracey Stanley looks at Live Topics, a more flexible and user-controlled way of searching the Alta Vista Web Page index. <a href="/issue9">issue9</a> May 1997 <a href="/category/article-type/regular-column">regular column</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/211/author-info">tracey stanley</a> Judith Wusteman describes the document formats used in electronic serials. <a href="/issue8">issue8</a> March 1997 <a href="/category/article-type/feature-article">feature article</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/362/author-info">judith wusteman</a> Tamara Sumner and Simon Buckingham Shum of the Knowledge Media Institute of the Open University, describe the design and implementation of the Journal of Interactive Media in Education, and some of the issues behind the approach that this journal takes to the process of scholarly review. <a href="/issue5">issue5</a> September 1996 <a href="/category/article-type/project-update">project update</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/286/author-info">simon buckingham shum</a>, <a href="/taxonomy/term/285/author-info">tamara sumner</a> Jon Knight discusses some of the options available to the designers and implementors of HTML FORMs for providing authentication of users in a library environment. <a href="/issue5">issue5</a> September 1996 <a href="/category/article-type/tooled">tooled up</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/204/author-info">jon knight</a> Nicola Clare presents the case for an electronic journal in law. <a href="/issue4">issue4</a> July 1996 <a href="/category/article-type/project-update">project update</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/255/author-info">nicola clare</a> In this Netskills Corner, Brian Kelly describes a UK-Wide collaborative (combined directional Web and IRC chat-like system) meeting. <a href="/issue2">issue2</a> March 1996 <a href="/category/article-type/tooled">tooled up</a> <a href="/taxonomy/term/203/author-info">brian kelly</a>